Staxel

Created by: Plukit

Staxel is a farming and village life game set in a sandbox world. Make new friends, upgrade your town and watch your farm flourish! Relax and farm by yourself or enlist the aid of your friends via online coop to turn your island into a thriving farmstead! Bring as many as you want – the more the merrier! Staxel has been in development since 2014 and is aiming to release on Steam at the start of 2018, but if you can’t wait, you can buy Staxel on our website right now 🙂 http://playstaxel.com/

Motivatie

Best Core Entertainment Game Realise your dream of living a peaceful life in a fantasy world. Befriend a colourful cast of villagers and help them fulfil their goals, be it to open a new patisserie, rebuild the village, or to revitalise the old farm. Dive into a deep farming system which encompasses a wide variety of agricultural activities, from growing crops and tending to animals, to cooking and crafting. Call on your friends to join you via online multiplayer and work together to build your world. Best Core Entertainment Game As the village grows, new opportunities arise. While away the hours fishing in a local stream, comb the beaches for seashells, or venture into the surrounding forestry to hunt for bugs. If you’re lucky you might find a queen bee and start up your own beekeeping business.

Nowhere is off limits and your imagination is the key. Expand and modernise the village, turning it into a thriving town. Build a fortress atop a local mountain, or a dungeon deep underground. With its flexible and intuitive modding API, you can easily introduce new characters, blocks, biomes, tools, or any number of other elements, giving rise to endless possibilities.

Motivatie 2e categorie

Best Art Direction Voxels are the new pixel art - low in resolution, but deep in terms of design and skill. Enter a colourful and vibrant world built upon this principle. Gaze out across the vast ocean, explore atmospheric forests, and scale intimidating mountains as snow falls lazily around you.

At the centre of all this, visit the village, teeming with characters from a variety of races, each with their own unique hand-crafted homes. Head on over to the markets and chat with the merchants in their brightly adorned caravans, or head on up to the airship dock to marvel at the extravagant vessel that pulls in every once in a while.

Motivatie 3e categorie

Best Technical Achievement Rendering voxels generally falls outside of most GPUs comfort zones. For this reason, we built a custom engine from the ground up using a number of uncommon techniques such as server-side runtime dynamic mesh baking. We also run worlds as single player servers to allow friends to seamlessly and effortlessly jump into your game.

Motivatie 4e categorie

Best Music & Audio With well over an hour and a half of music, composer Curtis Schweitzer has crafted a happy, atmospheric, and relaxing soundtrack which perfectly captures Staxel's motifs and elevates the game to new heights.